Prüm Air Station, Radar installation in Prüm, Germany

Prüm Air Station is a former US radar station about 8 km north of Prüm in the Schneifel forest. The site held a radio tower and a mobile 407L radar unit for air surveillance and communications. Most buildings were demolished after the US withdrawal in the early 1990s; the radio facility remained until 2011. Since 2023 two N149/5.x wind turbines have been built on the grounds.

Built in the 1950s, Prüm Air Station handled radio traffic between NATO and US forces at Bitburg and Spangdahlem air bases and the US Department of Defense, with radar surveillance by a mobile 407L unit. Around 1,000 US soldiers, some 100 of them civilians, were stationed in the Schneifel forest during the Cold War. After the Cold War the barracks were demolished and about 30 staff stayed on to send weather data to Spangdahlem until summer 2004; the tower area was maintained until autumn 2011.

During the Cold War about 1,000 US soldiers were stationed in the Schneifel forest, roughly 100 of them civilian employees. Most lived in the abbey town of Prüm in the Prüm Housing estate, the rest in villages such as Niederprüm and Weinsheim. Units based here included the 601st Tactical Control Squadron, the 447th Signal Battalion and the 7025th Air Postal Squadron.

The site is not open to public access today as wind turbines have been built on the grounds. Visitors can observe the surroundings from outside but cannot enter the facility itself.

After the 2004 closure, about 30 military employees had been sending weather data to Spangdahlem Air Base until the US military switched to German weather satellites. Since 2023 RES Deutschland GmbH has been converting the site into the Windpark Prüm Air Station, where two N149/5.x turbines are expected to supply around 13,500 households.